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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you believe it was the past sexual abuse you mentioned that coerced you into choosing stripping besides the big money? If so, why?[/quote]

In no way was I "coerced" into stripping. It was a decision I discussed with my husband at length.

I cannot tell how my being a victim of childhood sexual abuse played into my decision, because I don't know what it's like to not have been sexually abused. Sexuality and gender studies have always been of particular interest to me - LGBTQ issues, feminism, the dark and taboo elements of human sexuality and, yes, the roles of sex workers in society through the ages - so I didn't just wake up one day with this particular itch to scratch. [/quote]

Well the backgrounds of most sex industry workers have a past of sex abuse and to add to that the sex industry is feminist and gives women control and even may be therapeutic for those women so there must be some correlation there.[/quote]

It's [b]not[/b] true that most sex workers have a background of sex abuse.  According to this study, the damaged goods hypothesis is false, sex workers were no more likely to have been abused, and actually had higher self esteem than the general population.

[url]http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2012.719168?journalCode=hjsr20&#/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2012.719168?journalCode=hjsr20&[/url][/quote]

Thanks, PP, for the insight. I'm gonna derail a little here and say the term "damaged goods" makes my skin crawl! For me and those like me who've spent a lifetime making sense of the dysfunctional and abusive environments in which we were raised, being called something so marginalizing hurts. By being abused, it was communicated that we were worthless, not deserving of respect nor autonomy, and labeling people (usually women) with a history of sexual abuse as damaged goods only affirms those hurtful messages.

I know you were not attacking me, PP, and in fact trying to defend women in this line of work (thank you!) but I just wanted to put this out there.[/quote]

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